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A61274	Of preparation for death and judgment a sermon preached at Whitehall January 27, 1694/5, before the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlain, the Ladies of the Bedchamber, and others of the household to our late gracious Queen Mary of blessed memory / by George Stanhope ... ; published at the request of that honourable audience.	Stanhope, George, 1660-1728.	1695 (1695)	Wing S5225; ESTC R15063	15,303	36

of the Gospel shone forth there were Intimations in abundance given that the Almighty would arise to Judgment and reward every Man according to his work But we have a much surer word than that of Prophecy The express Testimony of our Blessed Lord and his Holy Apostles Joh. V. 22. That very Son to whom the Father hath committed all Judgment tells us in the following Chapter Ch. XXV 31 32. that He will come in his Glory and all the Holy Angels with him that he will sit on his Throne and all Nations shall be gathered before him V. 31. And in this Chapter That he will send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet and they shall gather together his Elect from the four winds from one end of Heaven to the other St. Paul accordingly hath forewarned the Corinthians and in Them all to whom that Epistle should come 2 Cor. V. 10. That we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his Body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad He hath likewise pressed the Athenians to speedy Conversion and Repentance from this most unanswerable Argument Acts XVII 31. that God hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead St. Peter acquaints us yet farther That the delay of this Judgment had tempted some ungodly and inconsiderate Wretches to question whether there would ever be any such thing But while those Scoffers ridiculed Religion and rallied this uneasie Doctrine with that implous Taunt Where 2 Pet. II● 3 4. where is the Promise of his Coming He teaches Us to entertain quite different Notions of the matter Beloved says he V. 8 9 10 be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness but is long-suffering to us-ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance But the Day of the Lord will come as a Thief in the night To all which and many other express Testimonies of Scripture if we add the constant Dictates and private Impulses the Applauses and the Reproaches of Conscience which according to the Quality of each moral Action never fail to strike us with some expectations of a distant Reward or Punishment If we reflect upon the Reasonableness the Necessity of such a thing in order to a publick Vindication of the Divine Justice and a perfect clearing of the dark and mysterious methods of Providence which with such seeming Indifference distributes the Good and Evil Things of this present Life These will appear so many evident invincible Proofs of a future Judgment and we cannot with any Forehead pretend that Almighty GOD hath been wanting either to inform us that it shall be or to warn and fortifie us against it 2. But Secondly If by the Son of Man's coming be understood our own Death alas where do we not meet with fresh Remembrancers of that Besides that Almighty GOD hath ordained this Coming as a necessary Introduction to the other Hebr. IX 27. for It is appointed unto Men once to die and after that the Judgment Besides this I say every thing we see or hear or know turns our Monitor and we must be blind and deaf not to be sensible and perfectly stupid not to apprehend and consider it Every dying Year every declining Day every drooping Flower and falling Leaf are but so many Emblems of our certain Mortality And for fear we should neglect these as Instances too remote and too little concerning us the continual Change of our own Bodies brings the Matter home and makes the unwelcome Application for us For in despight of all the vain Flatteries and perverse Reasonings of Flesh and Blood to the contrary the unsteady condition of Human Nature is a most sensible an ever-present Argument that as Man comes up like a Flower Job XIV 2. so there is no Remedy but one way or other he must be cut down like it too If he escape the rude Assaults of sad untimely Accidents if neither Violence crop him off nor Sickness blast him in the Bud yet the Slower decays of Age will be sure to wither his Beauty and make his Strength bend and stoop till he be forced down into his native Earth again And yet in all this Comparison there is as Job well observes one mighty Disproportion V. 7.8.9.10 That of a Plant or an Herb there is hope that it will sprout again The return of the Year and a kindly Season may cherish it or the Care of the Cultivater and Refreshing Moisture may make it bud and hinder the tender Branch from ceasing V. 11.12 But Man dieth and wasteth away he lieth down and riseth not till the Heavens be no more Or if the Examples of other Creatures be not drawn into Consequence nor the gradual Decays of our own Persons duly attended to yet where these have accomplished their full work how prodigiously impenetrable must we be not to take the Impression The same common Nature is imparted to all Men and all are liable to the same Dangers and Infirmities Our own late sad Experience hath convinced us that neither Youth nor Vigour neither Piety nor Power is Defence sufficient against this Fatal Blow If any Humane Excellence could get above it if the most Zealous Prayers and United Wishes of Good People could suspend it that Royal Patern of Virtue whose Life was worth ten thousand of Ours had not so soon left us this most afflicting Instance That not Any not even the Greatest not even the Best can have any pretence to think themselves exempted from a Destiny that is inflicted without Distinction upon Persons of all Ages all Conditions and all Constitutions And of this indeed we have Experiments without number the fullest Evidence that can possibly be given For the last Groans and Agonies of departing Souls the sad Solemnities of Funerals the dejected Looks and mourning Weeds of Melancholy surviving Friends and the still more melting Sighs and Tears of the poor Widows and Fatherless bereaved of their best Comfort and Support These are Objects that in every time and every place do so constantly present themselves to our view that a Man must even go out of the World not to meet with them How then shall we call that Coming of our Lord sudden for want of sufficient notice which we are so many several ways and so continually reminded of that without doing the extreamest Violence to our Reason and our Senses it is impossible for us not to expect and daily apprehend it But I observed before that an Accident is sometimes reputed Sudden as well in regard of the Person